go to Gretna Green

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What does that Infant do,—for Infant you may call him and be within the mark,—but cut away from that old lady’s with his Norah, on a expedition to go to Gretna Green and be married!

From The Holly-Tree by Dickens, Charles

Jone thought I had done a good deal of meddling in other people's business, but he agreed to go to Gretna Green, and we got there in the afternoon.

From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard

What does that Infant do—for Infant you may call him, and be within the mark—but cut away from that old lady's with his Norah, on a expedition to go to Gretna Green and be married!

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

What does that Infant do—but cut away from that old lady's with his Norah, on a expedition to go to Gretna Green and be married!

From Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers by Various